Eskil Vogt’s sophomore feature, The Innocents, is a slight improvement over his debut, Blind, and captures the energy of Joachim Trier’s Thelma, albeit with a darker tone. It’s an unnerving coming-of-age horror story about moral development during youth and the […]
From Persuasion to Notting Hill to My Cousin Rachel, Roger Michell has always found ways to pull the audience into the narrative. Even if the film in question doesn’t work wholly, you still get something out of it. Sometimes it’s […]
The recent works of French director Jacques Audiard haven’t been up to par with his early-2000s projects basked in much more interesting themes and notions, A Prophet and Read My Lips specifically. Nevertheless, I appreciate his versatility in the genres […]
British filmmaker Andrea Arnold’s approach to visual storytelling is gripping. It’s particularly intriguing because of how she shoots her features and captures the respective themes of her films: containment or the feeling of confinement, loneliness, and women in desperate circumstances […]
Horror and social media (or the technological world of pop culture) have intertwined for many years now. Go back to the days where television was the big picture – “sucking the souls” of the viewer. That’s when David Cronenberg retaliated […]
Over the years, there has been a drought of perfectly cooked and chilling thrillers. Nowadays, you don’t get the complete package of an unpredictable story, smothering atmosphere, and interesting characters. Of course, there are a lot of great recent examples […]
